Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-24

GENEVA SToNER, aged seven teen years.
committed suicide at Lancaster, Pa, on
tn 18th, by taking dose of rat poison.
She gave as reason Tor the act that her
mother would not allow her to go out at
night
TIE funeral of Lieutenant Powell, of the
signal corps, took place from his late resi-
dence in Washington on the 10Th. The in
torment was made in Glerwood cemetery.
the funeral
A WASHINGTON firm of architects have
been awarded the prize competition of
artists and architects all over the world
for a monument to the City of Mexico, to
commemorate the war in which Mexico
became an independent nation. 1t is to be
Of Mexican marbles and bronze to cost
1900. 900.
TIE Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
in reply to an official inq uiry from the
Commissioner of Agriculture, states that
the quantity of artificial butter manufact-
ured and removed for consumption or sale
during the months of NOvem Der, Decem.
Der and January was as follows: Novem-
Der, 4, 7i2, 500 pounds; December, 2,7s6, 27s
pounds, January, 1851, ia pounds Total,
10 029, 061 pounds.
MRS HoYT, the Presidents sister, is a
guest at the White House in Washington.
BUFFALO BILL" has been made a
Colonel of Nebraska militia
THE Irish police have at last Succeede d
in arresting Father Keleher.
IT is stated at Washington that ex-
Representative Benton j. Hall, of Iowa
has been decided upon as the successor
to Mr.. Montgomery as Commits sioner of
Patents.
Mrs. ADELE GRATIoT- WAsHBuRNE, wife
of the Hon. E. B. Washburne, eX-Minister
to France, died in Chicago on the 18th.
M. De LEssEPs says he don't care what
the Partisan press say about his recent ut
terances at Berlin; that he still sticks to
them.
AN appalling hotel horror occurred on
the 18th at Buffalo, N. Y, in the burning
of the new Ric hmond House A number
of human lives were lost and a great
many people were injured.
A NAN who, from papers found in his
pocket, was undoubtedly Patrick II.
Dolan, a clerk, fell in front of an engine
at the Ninth street (New York; station OF
the Third Avenue Elevated road on the
18th, and was instantly killed.
THE Russian Press is raising large cash
contributions from public subscriptions
for the families of the insurgents recently
executed in Bulgaria.
THE second trial of Michael Kaelin, at
Louisville, KY, for the murder of his
wife on August z, 1885, resulted on the
18th in his being sentenced to the peniten.
tiary for life. Upon his first trial he was
sentenced to hang.
THE weekly report of the Commissioner
of Pensions shows that during the week
ending March IL there were received at
his office 6,355 applications for pensions;
2 154 cases were disposed of during the
week, leaving total of 296, 2S6 cases pend
ing.
The Political Correspondence says the
Turkish Government has warned the Bull
garian Government of a projected rebel
ious movement from RoUmelia, under
Captain Nabokoff, with band of armed
Montenegrins.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Cairo to secure
the release of Zobehr Pasha, transported
in 1885 for alleged treason, and since a
State prisoner at Gibraltar
The bodies of two unknown trampS
We're discovered in the hot air flue of the
Isabella furnace at Pittsburgh on the
18th. The men had evidently crawled
into the f1ue or tunnel to escape from the
cold last night, and had been sutfocated
by the coke gas while sleeping. There
was nothing about them which would
furnish clew to their identity.
A SAD death by suicide occurred in
miles north of Lenox, Ia, on the 18th
George Douglass, wellknown farmer,
forty-seven years of age, shot and killed
himself with revolver near his house.
No cause can be assigned, unless it be
long continued lll-health. He leaves a
wife and a large family.
AT six o'clock on the morning of the
18th the distillery of Dorset & Wulftang,
in Covington, KY, was burned to the
ground. Loss, $4,000. One man, Ben
Rucer, was fatally injured.
AT one o'clock on the morning of the
18th John Doty was crossing the Polk
street viaduct in Chicago, when he was
assaulted by two men, who struck him on
the head with club, knocking him down.
After rif1ing his pockets the thugs fed,
leaving no clew to their identity. Doty
was conveyed to the County Hospital,
where it was found that his skull was
fractured.
TIE British ship Eliza A. Kenney, Cap.
tain Lawrence, from Philadelphia, via
New York for Bremen, has been aban.
doned al sea in sinking condition. The
crew were saved.